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The question of the blueberry

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The frequently asked questions

Upbringing Episode

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The frequently asked questions

Of the time when a lot of blueberries ripen when and is it?
The times which ripen every kind with the blueberry having a variety of kinds are different. When roughly explained, at this farm, the blueberry of Hightbusch type is the first ten days in August from the last ten days in June and as for the blueberry of Rabbiteye type, the last ten days in September are the time of the blueberry hunt from the first ten days in August. ( The time depends on the climate of the area little ).
The knack which discerns a delicious blueberry?
The dark blue ( the color which is near the black ) is the signature of the maturity basically. In the axis, more yet, there is claret one and it is not maturity yet and the surface is acid in the dark blue. Choose and pick the blueberry which was made dark blue to the axis because it is. It is told that the one to have gotten to have sprinkled white powder, Vroom, on the dark blue is more delicious.
The retention period of the picked blueberry?
The retention period of the picked blueberry changes well at the weather status and the kind when picking. In it is raining and the time to brighten, the retention period draws in in the time when it is raining. （But, when immediately refrigerated, a difference isn't too much made.） Hightbusch type can save the 3-5th with the refrigerator with the blueberry which was picked the day to have brightened and Rabbiteye type can save about 7 days. ( The retention period depends on the condition of the picked blueberry ). When deepfreezing, it is possible to do about 1 year save. But, after the deepfreezing, it eats the one of the toughness as much as the sherbet just as it is just as it is, or it extracts and it doesn't make it jam.
One with what which blooms around when is the flower of the blueberry?
The white flower that < is small blooms because the blueberry is Ericaceae. It is the flower which is the same as the Japanese enkianthus approximately. At this farm, it becomes in full bloom around the golden week in May.
The one with the kind which is in the blueberry?
There are equal to or more than 300 kinds of the worlds kinds of the blueberry and the number is increasing every year. There are Hightbusch type, Rabbiteye type and so on roughly. At this farm, it is growing four kinds of kinds in five kinds, Rabbiteye type in Hightbusch type. The time and the taste ripen are different-sized.
The blueberry is good with the eyes?
It is in the material which is called anthocyanin that it says a good ingredient at the eyes. Most of the blueberry dark blue pigment is anthocyanin. There are other polyphenol same, strong anti oxidant action in anthocyanin and they are supposed to be good to prevent from aging. Having the function which improves blood circulation by making blood smooth, promotes eyesight improvement and eyestrain prevention, the synthesis of the collagen as the specific main function and suppresses an inflammation, too, is known.
The white powder which is in the surface of the blueberry?
The white powder secretes to be called Vroom, and for the fruit to protect itself and to prevent dryness. Of course, there is not a problem at all even if it eats. Vroom becomes the standard of the gusto because the more freshly becoming mature fruit it does, he is the more. Because it has come off even if it rubs with the hand and the fruit fellow bumps, it is possible to say that it was politely harvested about the stuck fruit and that Vroom was transported. Therefore, the market value is thought of as being as high as the one where Vroom is left and being classy.

Upbringing Episode

For how many year does it become possible to eat if passing from the sapling?
The fruit bears the hip which about 3 graders dry at the age of the tree. Then, when becoming as much as 8 graders, the stock increases and it becomes possible to be much harvested by it. Begin pruning from this year.
Of what of the manure to raise a sapling for?
The oil lees are the optimal for the manure. The fowl droppings, the cow dung, the chemical fertilizer and so on seem not too suitable. Then, don't give too much quantity. Give oil lees with handful degree in the spring and the autumn in the lightness per time if being at the small sapling.
Watering frequency how much?
It desires water as much as being told " that it raises " the sapling of the blueberry " with water ". Enough of the water is given in morning and evening of every day except the day when rain in the summertime fell. In the winter, it is once to 1 week and the age is about once in 2, on the 3rd. Raise water for earth not to dry up because it is a standard persistently.